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SCENE IV - Joseph Addison, Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays [1710]

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Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays, ed. by Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword by Forrest McDonald (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).

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SCENE IV

Sempronius with the leaders of the mutiny.

Sempronius

  • At length the winds are raised, the storm blows high,
  • Be it your care, my friends, to keep it up
  • In its full fury, and direct it right,
  • Till it has spent itself on Cato’s head.
  • Meanwhile I’ll herd among his friends, and seem
  • One of the number, that whate’er arrive,
  • My friends and fellow soldiers may be safe.  [Exit.]

1st Leader

  • We all are safe, Sempronius is our friend,
  • Sempronius is as brave a man as Cato.
  • But, hark! he enters. Bear up boldly to him;
  • Be sure you beat him down, and bind him fast.
  • This day will end our toils, and give us rest!
  • Fear nothing, for Sempronius is our friend.